Clothes-pin



(ModeL) A. O. ASHALD.

Clothes Pin.

No. 232,915. Patented Oct. 5, I880.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,915, dated October 5, 1880.

Application filed March 15, 1880. (Modch) To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Amos 0. ASHALD, of

Garrettsville, in the county of Portage and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes- Pins; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of metallic clothespins or devices intended to fasten clothes or similar fabrics upon a rope or line when they are suspended for the purpose of drying or exposing to the action of the atmosphere or rays of the sun; and the novelty of my invention consists in making a clothes-pin from asingle piece of wire by coilingits middle portion into a spiral springof several folds, the ends of the wire being constructed and arranged to form the loops or jaws of the pin, said loops or jaws having corrugations arranged in planes at right angles toeach other and terminating in hooks bent in upon the coil-spring, all as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that persons skilled in the art may know how to make and use my improved clothes-pin, I will now proceed to fully describe the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clothespin, showing the relative position of the righthand jaw. Fig. 2 is also a perspective view of the same, showing the relative position of the left-hand jaw; and Fig. 3 is a front view, showing more distinctly the relative position of the two jaws.

Similar letters refer to like parts.

a b are the jaws, having theirinner surfaces bent where they clasp the line, so as to form corrugations c d in planes at right angles to each other. This construction of the jaws renders their hold upon the line and clothes more secure than would be the case were "these parts of either even or corrugated surfaces lying in the same plane.

0 is a spiral spring, made by coiling the middle portion of the wire, as shown, in several circles and bending or hooking the two extremities g g inwardly upon the coils thus made. When the jaws fare forced open the hooks g g are pressed against the coils of the spring, and the outer portions of the jaws act as braces, holding the coils of the spring together and adding considerable strength and rigidity to the entire device.

In using, the pin is pressed over the line and article to be held, when the spiral springcauses it to firmly clasp the same and hold them in place. The more pressure there is exerted the greater will be the firmness with which the line and clothes will be held.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The clothes-pin described, made from asingle piece of wire having its middle portion coiled into a spiral spring, 0, of several folds, the ends of the wire forming loops or jaws to I), with corrugations c d in planes at right angles to each other, and terminating in hooks g g, bent in upon the coil-spring, for the purpose set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 14th day of February, 1879.

A. O. ASIIALD.

lVitnesses JAMES ASHALD, P. B. WATERs. 

